José Ortega Y Gasset Quotes

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

En general, el político es político precisamente porque es torpe.

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,
whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme
that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to
be such when it ceases to be aristocratic

[...] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible.

... every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they are constructions of possibilities; therefore they are pure bits of imagination, or fine ideas of our own...

No viven juntás las gentes sin más ni más y porque sí; esa cohesion a priori sólo existe en la familia. Los grupos que integran un Estado viven juntos para algo: son una comunidad de propósitos, de anhelos, de grandes utilidades. No conviven por estar juntos, sino para hacer juntos algo.

Las gentes no suelen ponerse de acuerdo si no es en cosas un poco bellacas o un poco tontas.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man